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CLAMP,

No. 483,825. Patented 0015'. 4, 1892.v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM N. B. ALDERSON AND JAMES WILLIAM ALLEN, OF EUREKA SPRINGS,ARKANSAS; SAID ALDERSON ASSIGNOR, AND SAID ALLEN ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRDOF HIS RIGHT, TO EDWIN R. BAY, OF

SAME PLACE.

CLAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,825, dated October4, 1892.

Application filed February 4, 1892.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM N. B. ALDER- SON and JAMES WILLIAM ALLEN,citizens of the United States, residing at Eureka Springs, in the countyof Carroll and State of Arkansas,have invented certain new andusefulImprovements in Clamps; and we do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to thefigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Our invention relates to improvements in clamps especially adapted foruse as a clothesclamp for suspending clothes from a line; and the objectof the invention is the provision of a clamp inexpensive inconstruction,durable, and thoroughly efficient for the desired purpose.

The invention consists of a clamp formed of a single piece of elasticwire, substantially as illustrated, described, and claimed.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of our clamp applied for use.Fig. 2 represents a front view thereof, and Fig. 3 represents aperspective view of a modified form of our clamp.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates ourclamp made from a single piece of Wire, and in producing the clamp wefirst bend the wire to form an eye 7, then the vertical arms 2 and 5,and then the Serial No. 420,253. (No model.)

central double eye 4. From this eye 4 the wire is bent to form thevertical arms 6 and 3 and finally terminates in an eye 7 From thisconstruction it is evident that we provide two clamping portions bymeans of the arms 2 5 and 3 6, respectively, which are near together ornormally in contact, and they receive the articles between the arms, asshown, and retain them in position, and the eyes 7 and 7 x and eye 4allow the passage of the line, all as shown.

In the modified form 1 of our clamp we bend the wire to form the eyes 7x and 7 outside straight arms 2 and 3", and inside arms 5 and 6",straight for a suitable distance and then curved inward and bent to formthe eyes 4, arranged a suitable distance apart by the arms 4:, all asclearly shown in Fig. 3.

The clamp is simple, durable, and cheap and may be used as aclothes-clamp or for any other purpose where it could be employed.

We claim A suspension-clamp consisting of a series of binding-arms, twoof them having eyes at their free ends and. the others having the doubleintermediate eye, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures

